UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin

Leírás

UpdraftPlus simplifies backups and restoration. It is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup plugin, with over a million currently-active installs. Backup your files and database backups into the cloud and restore with a single click!

Don’t risk your backups on anything less

Your WordPress backups are worth the entire investment you’ve made in your website. The day may come when you get hacked, when something goes wrong with an update, your server crashes or your hosting company goes bust – without good backups, you lose everything. Would you entrust all your hard work to a backup plugin with only a few thousand downloads, mixed reviews or no professional support?

Believe us: writing a reliable backup plugin that works consistently across the huge range of WordPress deployments is hard.

UpdraftPlus works. We’ll keep your backups safe.

Why you should backup your website.

WordPress like any CMS can be vulnerable to things such as server crashes, hacking, security flaws, bad plugin or theme updates and insecure web hosts. If anything happened to your website, it would cost you dearly in time, money and reputation.

Whilst other security measures are essential, backups are the ultimate insurance: they mean that, if the worst were to happen, your website (plus all related files and databases) stay safe, and can be restored in no time.

You could always create your own manual backups- but using backup plugin is infinitely quicker, simpler and safer. Life’s busy enough! With UpdraftPlus, you can simply “set and forget”, scheduling in automatic backups to save you time, work and hassle.

How UpdraftPlus compares with other backup plugins:

UpdraftPlus is the most highly-rated and popular plugin out there – and for good reason. Not only is it comprehensive in terms of its features, but it’s aso easy and intuitive to use. And because it has such a vast user base, it’s tried and tested in a whole range of different situations and scenarios.

Unlike many other plugins, UpdraftPlus:

Restores, as well as backing up

Backs up to more cloud options than any others

Allows you to set up automatic backup schedules, for the ultimate in convenience

Is faster, using up fewer server resources

Has been tested on over 1 million sites

On our website, we’ve got a whole page dedicated to how our Premium version compares with the competition here

UpdraftPlus Premium

The free version of UpdraftPlus works just fine, but if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version. Here are some of the many features of UpdraftPlus Premium:

Easily duplicates or migrates websites (with Migrator)

Multisite/multi-network compatible

Backs up non WP files and databases to multiple remote destinations

Free dedicated expert support

Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here

Managing multiple website backups

We’ve also developed a brilliant new plugin that allows you to backup, update and manage all of your websites remotely from one central location. It’s called UpdraftCentral, and it comes in 2 different forms:

UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted)

UpdraftCentral Premium (fully-hosted and “ready-to-go”, cloud version also available)

Are you multi-lingual? Can you translate?

Are you able to translate UpdraftPlus into another language? Are you ready to help speakers of your language? UpdraftPlus Backup/Restore itself is ready and waiting – the only work needed is the translating. The translation process is easy, and web-based – go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/. (Or if you’re an expert WordPress translator already, then just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e()).

Many thanks to the existing translators – listed at: https://updraftplus.com/translate/

More premium plugins

If you are in the market for other WordPress premium plugins (especially WooCommerce addons), then try our sister shop, here.

Licenc

Copyright 2011-18 David Anderson
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

Furthermore, reliance upon any non-English translation is at your own risk. UpdraftPlus can give no guarantees that translations from the original English are accurate.

We recognise and thank the following for code and/or libraries used and/or modified under the terms of their open source licences; see: https://updraftplus.com/acknowledgements/

Képernyőmentések

Main dashboard - screenshots are from UpdraftPlus Premium, so may reference some features that are not part of the free version

Configuring your backups

Restoring from a backup

Showing and downloading backup sets

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What exactly does UpdraftPlus do?

Our free version of UpdraftPlus is fully functional: it performs full, manual or scheduled backups of all your WordPress files, databases, plugins and themes, and restores them direct from your WordPress control panel.

Yes! We’ve developed a brilliant new plugin that allows you to backup, update and manage all of your website remotely from one central location. It’s called UpdraftCentral, and it comes in 2 different forms:

UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted)

UpdraftCentral Premium (fully-hosted by us and “ready-to-go”; self-hosted version also available)

It helps greatly if you can include the backup log and as much other information as possible in your report, for example, the PHP version, your website, the error description, how you got to the page that caused it, any other relevant plugins you have installed, plus any other information that might be of use.

To find the backup log: there are links to download the logs on the UpdraftPlus settings page- or you may be emailed it. Failing that, FTP into the directory wp-content/updraft and look for it there.

If you know how, please send your PHP error logs- just the few lines that appear when you run a backup, often the file called error_log, possibly in your wp-admin directory which you can check via FTP. And if you’re a programmer that can debug and send a patch, that’s even better.

UpdraftPlus runs out of time when it’s trying to backup, after I have left it for some time to give it a good chance. What can I do?

This problem is probably caused by your account being starved of resources by your (cheap) web host provider. This is far from ideal; although UpdraftPlus supports resuming backup runs right from the beginning to avoid everything having to be done at once, it has its limits. The best thing is to choose a more reputable web host. Failing this, try going into the “Expert settings” and reducing the size at which zip files are split. UpdraftPlus is known to successfully backup websites that run into the multiple-gigabytes on web servers that are not resource-starved.

If my site gets hacked and the backups don’t work, is there anything I can do?

Unfortunately not; since this is free software, there’s no warranty and no guarantee. It’s up to you to verify that UpdraftPlus is creating your backups correctly.

I heavily rely on this plugin when I know something has gone wrong on my website(s) (usually caused by a dumb caching plugin) and it restores everything back to a good state / how it was before. I cannot stress enough how useful this plugin has been and how many times it has saved my butt.

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Változások

N.B. Paid versions of UpdraftPlus Backup / Restore have a version number which is 1 higher in the first digit, and has an extra component on the end, but the changelog below still applies. i.e. changes listed for 1.14.9 of the free version correspond to changes made in 2.14.9.x of the paid version.

1.14.12 – 17/July/2018

FEATURE: Added UpdraftCentral’s theme management module handler

FEATURE: User can mark any backup as “do not delete”, and it will then not be deleted even when retention limits are hit

TWEAK: Add the “Migrate / Clone” tab in place of the “Migrate / Clone” dialog

TWEAK: Prevent call to the the wp_get_sites() deprecated function on WP 4.6 and newer

TWEAK: Prevent a potential PHP debugging notice when displaying the ‘Connect with your UpdraftPlus.com’ form

TWEAK: Do not show the confusing JetPack ‘backup’ notice on the ‘Updates’ page

TWEAK: Added clone notices and commands for when UpdraftPlus is running on a UpdraftClone

TWEAK: Move ‘Log all messages to syslog (only server admins are likely to want this)’ into the ‘expert’ settings section

TWEAK: Replace a missing class constant in the Dropbox SDK (only relevant to people upgrading from Dropbox API v1 tokens – indicates upgrading UpdraftPlus from a very old version that previously used Dropbox APIv1 but never v2)

TWEAK: It’s “backup”, not “back up”

TWEAK: Prevent potential PHP debugging notices in restoration step 2

TWEAK: Allow non-Super Admins to access UpdraftPlus Premium if they have ‘manage_network_plugins’ capability and the updraft_user_can_manage filter is used

TWEAK: Improved code in a way that prevents continuous polling in the themes page, thes plugins page and the updates page

1.14.11 – 25/May/2018

FIX: Revert a change in 1.14.9 that could cause backups to not be sent to remote storage (fix in 1.14.10 was not 100% complete (but worked for almost everyone))

TWEAK: Added the “Web-server disk space in use by UpdraftPlus” information to “Site information” section in the “Advanced Tools” tab; it won’t show in the ‘Existing Backups’ tab if you are using less than 100MB.

TWEAK: When a Google Cloud token was invalid, a PHP Fatal could result instead of catching the error and informing/logging nicely

TWEAK: If php-xml (SimpleXMLElement) is not installed, then show an appropriate warning in the Azure configuration section

TWEAK: If the user tries to install another version of UpdraftPlus, then tweak the default error message that they are shown by WP, which is too obscure/cryptic for many users

1.14.8 – 12/May/2018

FIX: Resuming of a partially uploaded backup archive in the new ‘OneDrive for Business’ module was not working

TWEAK: When testing SFTP settings, if debug is activated, activate debug logging and pass the results back in the event of test failure (previous attempt was incomplete)

TWEAK: OneDrive SDK cleaned up to remove the obsolete Live 5.0 API

1.14.7 – 25/Apr/2018

FIX: Fix incompatibility with loading the dashboard on WP 4.6 and older. If you have this problem, then you cannot visit /wp-admin/ – you will need to update via another tool (e.g. if you have a multiple site management tool), or via FTP (download the https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/updraftplus.1.14.7.zip , unzip it on your PC, log in to your site via FTP into the folder wp-content/plugins, remove the existing folder ‘updraftplus’ and then upload the unzipped ‘updraftplus’ folder). Many apologies!

1.14.3 – 24/Jan/2018

TWEAK: Handle a combined error/timing condition seen on DigitalOcean Spaces that could lead to UD thinking that an upload that actually succeeded, did not

TWEAK: Add functions to pull backup status and log for UpdraftCentral

TWEAK: Add command multiplexer function for UpdraftCentral

TWEAK: Audit and regularise use of slash-handling code in AJAX layer

TWEAK: A couple of remote storage error paths were not returning the error information to the upper level correctly

TWEAK: Prevent phpseclib from throwing a fatal upon autoload if mbstring.func_overload is set (see: https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/issues/762); instead, log, or handle in some other way appropriate to the context

TWEAK: All remote storage methods are ported over to using configuration templates internally

TWEAK: Include a method to add a manifest file inside each backup archive

TWEAK: All code relating to the now-dead Dropbox APIv1 removed (N.B. If you’ve not updated UpdraftPlus since November 2016 and were using Dropbox, it won’t be working – https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2017/09/api-v1-shutdown-details/)

TWEAK: Prevent a PHP log notice upon database backup restore when using Google Drive without a client ID

TWEAK: Prevent the final ‘Restore’ button being pressed a second time

TWEAK: Improvements to the UpdraftCentral wizard

TWEAK: Update to trunk version of plugin updater (paid versions), restoring the ability to work on older WP versions (3.8 and before)

TWEAK: Add lbakut_activity_log to the list of large log tables

TWEAK: Updater in paid versions now requests JSON as response format for responses when claiming entitlements

TWEAK: Resolve: Backup labels could end up with extraneous slashes in output

TWEAK: Updater in paid versions can now receive and process update information in respond to entitlement claim – one less HTTP round-trip

TWEAK: Improve Google Cloud authentication success message for bucket name is not defined

TWEAK: UpdraftVault commands now pass an instance identifier

FEATURE: Backups can now be uploaded to multiple instances of the same remote storage but not yet possible to add multiple instances

1.13.11 – 27/Sep/2017

FIX: Fix a failure (regression in 1.13.8+) to download some backup sets which pre-date the existence of instances

FIX: Fix a failure to backup in the short-lived 1.13.10 (many apologies)

TWEAK: When logging an Exception or Error, include a backtrace (WP 3.4+)

TWEAK: Prevent a PHP warning during a save of the backup history

TWEAK: Added a MetaSlider notice in the notices collection

TWEAK: Put a try/catch block that will catch PHP exceptions/fatals (PHP 7.0+) during encryption phase, so that any issues can be logged

1.13.9 – 25/Sep/2017

TWEAK: Port job data used by Azure, Google Cloud and OneDrive storage to being instance-local (now believed to all be ported)

TWEAK: The automatic correcting of wrongly-input S3 and FTP settings had regressed in a recent version

TWEAK: Various small fixes to the standards compliance of the HTML output in the remote storage settings area

TWEAK: When deleting backups with multiple remote storage instances of the same type, order the attempts

1.13.8 – 21/Sep/2017

FEATURE: When importing a database, warn the user if the current MySQL server does not support a used character set, and offer to replace it (with a link explaining the risks)

FEATURE: Generic S3 storage module can now use non-default ports (specify by appending :(port number) to the host name)

FIX: Re-scanning of remote storage would fail to detect a file manually uploaded to a secondary remote storage location if not also present locally. Various other (unlikely) corner-case rescanning scenarios also tested and fixed.

TWEAK: Replace uses of create_function(), which is deprecated on PHP 7.2

TWEAK: Replace deprecated constructors (PHP 7+) in webdav module

TWEAK: Documentation showing plugin developers how easy it is to add in-page backups to their plugin: https://updraftplus.com/add-take-backup-functionality-plugin/

TWEAK: Make the UpdraftCentral updates checking able to cope with a wider range of third-party schemes

TWEAK: General code tidy-up, making older code conform to our current standards

TWEAK: Minor version updates of some bundled libraries

TWEAK: Produce and use minified resources (CSS/JS) where available

TWEAK: Update class-udrpc to latest (1.4.14) which removes a conflict with other code that may interact with CORS OPTIONS requests

TWEAK: Escape log lines when sending for display (theoretically an XSS security issue, but to achieve a successful attack, someone would have to first get something malicious into the log file, which is difficult as there are not many places where foreign input can end up in the log file – e.g. hack into Dropbox and cause Dropbox to send you back malicious HTML in an error message – and then be able to persuade you to both take a backup triggering the problem and then view the log file in your WP dashboard)

TWEAK: Update Google Cloud bucket locations

1.13.4 – 08/Jun/2017

FIX: Import function had a regression and was not coping with all formats

TWEAK: When the import function failed, the error was not shown to the user

1.13.3 – 07/Jun/2017

FIX: Revert Dropbox authentication change in 1.13.2, which was not working on all sites

1.13.2 – 07/Jun/2017

TWEAK: Marked as tested and compatible on WordPress 4.8

TWEAK: Dropbox authentication flow can now use POST for the final step, side-stepping (arbitrary) parameter length restrictions on some Apache mod_security setups

TWEAK: Prevent a possible PHP notice when curl is not present

TWEAK: Point Clef users towards Keyy

TWEAK: Do not open an alert box when the user changes their site ID in ‘Advanced Tools’

TWEAK: Fix parameters to updraft_check_overduecrons() JS function

1.13.1 – 09/May/2017

REFACTOR: Completed re-factoring of the remote storage modules, so that now all remote storage code has completed this current stage of re-factoring (more to come in future – laying the foundation for a significant new feature)

FIX: Added a nonce to the Dropbox deauth link. This is a minor security issue – someone personally targetting you, who knew that you were logged in to your WordPress admin, and who could persuade you to visit a personally-crafted web page, could cause the connection between UpdraftPlus and your Dropbox to be broken. The only impact of this is that the sending of your next backup to Dropbox would fail, and you would be alerted about the need to re-connect.

FIX: Import settings now handle the new remote storage options format

FIX: The zip file browser was not working in free versions

TWEAK: Added a version check when saving settings to prevent errors or lost settings

TWEAK: ‘Existing Backups’ table now shows an icon for each remote destination that the backup was sent to

TWEAK: Update SSL CA certificates file

TWEAK: If, when uploading to S3, a file is not found, handle it slightly more elegantly

TWEAK: Work with some WebDAV servers that previously sent empty responses to OPTIONS requests

1.12.40 – 01/Apr/2017

FIX: In some circumstances, settings for the storage modules refactored in 1.12.37 could fail to show

FIX: The free version of 1.12.37/38 in some circumstances could fail to complete Dropbox authentication

1.12.38 – 31/Mar/2017

TWEAK: Dropbox API v2 call to de-authorise a token was failing

FIX: Prevent a fatal error when attempting to use a backup method with no options set

1.12.37 – 31/Mar/2017

FEATURE: Browse the contents of a backup from within your WordPress dashboard, and (with Premium) download individual files from it

FIX: Fix an issue that could occasionally cause corruption of interrupted Dropbox backups. All Dropbox users are recommended to update asap.

TWEAK: Remove debugging statement inadvertently left in 1.12.36

TWEAK: Re-factored remote storage handlers via add-ons so that there was a cleaner and more consistent class hierarchy (preparation for future improvements). N.B. If you subsequently downgrade to an older version of UpdraftPlus, you will need to re-enter the settings for some remote storage options.

TWEAK: List of checksum algorithms run over backups and logged now includes SHA256, and is filterable (SHA1 now considered deprecated)

TWEAK: Allow chunked database encryption to try and resume in the event of an error

TWEAK: Improve the premium/extension tab content

TWEAK: Fix an issue whereby the UpdraftVault settings section could show a bogus problem with checking quota immediately after initial setup

TWEAK: When requesting a download, work around buggy browser/server that continued after Connection: close

TWEAK: Improve the UI experience when downloading a log file for display fails